In the brief run-up to the announcement of its Nexus One phone, Google was doing nothing to quash the hype. Phones given to employees were quickly popping up all over the tech universe with promises of the “best Android phone yet” not far behind. And when the phone was finally unveiled on Tuesday, a Google …
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January, 2010
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6 January
Oppo Blu
If you somehow needed another reason to buy an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray player — only our favourite home theatre gadget of last year — then the newest features added overnight may interest you: it now (sorta) does DLNA streaming. This means you can now stream music and movies from your network and watch them on your TV, and the files …
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6 January
Sony unveils 3D TV and content
Sony has made one thing clear at this year’s CES in Las Vegas: it wants to be the “undisputed leader in 3D”, and to do this it has unveiled a suite of new Bravia TVs and other 3D services. The LX900 is Sony’s premium 3D TV and features a slanted viewing angle. (Credit: Sony) “It is my pleasure to introduce …
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5 January
Existing T
If you’re a T-Mobile customer and tried to buy a Nexus One today, you might be surprised that you don’t qualify for the $180 contract price that was mentioned in today’s press announcement. This is apparently the case even if you’re out of contract with T-Mobile and just want to renew your plan. Here is the plan breakdown, according to …
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5 January
Flash Player 10.1 coming to Nexus One
In addition to the features announced on Tuesday at the Google press conference, the Nexus One will be getting even more functionality down the road, specifically Flash Player 10.1. In the video above, Adrian Ludwig of Adobe shows off the some of the work the company has been doing to bring Flash player to mobile devices. He demos several sites …
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5 January
Carphone Warehouse gives free flights with Palm Pre: Fly me to the Munich
In the early 1990s, giving away free flights with its vacuum cleaners cost Hoover £50m and lost the board its jobs, but Carphone Warehouse isn’t letting that stop it. It’s giving away two free return flights to Europe to everyone who buys a Palm Pre between 26 December 2009 and the end of January. You can choose to take your …
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5 January
Orange brings HD Voice to UK: Scream if you wanna talk louder
We do everything on our phones, from ordering our groceries to getting our groove on. But on some phones, actually making phone calls makes us want to scoop out our eyeballs with a melon baller. Poor connections, tinny sound and echoes are just some of the voice-quality issues that leave us shouting impotently into our mobiles. Orange is promising to …
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5 January
All hail the unlocked phone
So now we know the full story of the Nexus One. After the newest Google Android device was sightedlast month, Google formally released the handset to the world Tuesday morning. Though the Nexus One’s specs are promising–particularly the Snapdragon processor and the enhanced voice control capabilities–it’s not necessarily the best Android phone yet. Indeed, the real story of the Nexus …
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5 January
Google unveils Nexus One
We knew it was coming, but we had to wait for Google to spill the news before we could talk about it with authority. And the company did so Tuesday morning at a press conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. Now playing: Watch this: Google Nexus One 3:22 As expected, the Nexus One is a new Google Android …
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5 January
O2 users sent a quarter of a billion texts saying ‘Happy New Year!!! xx’
New Year’s Eve is always a whopper of a night for phone fingering. This morning O2 tipped us off to the fact that between 7:15am on 31 December and 7:15am on 1 January, its revelling UK customers sent nearly a quarter of a billion text messages to other phones. “O2 customers sent 227 million text messages [over New Year],” an …
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